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True Blue
(Above: True Blue, vintage, shrunken wool wedding bodice with hand embroidered marriage vows suspended on a padded coat hanger. 19" x 19" x 6". Click on any image to enlarge.)Before going to bed...
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The New York Times
(Above: Black & White and Read All Over: The New York Times, fiber vessel and contents made from two, Wednesday, July 15, 2020 copies of the New York Times. Click on any image to enlarge.)Late...
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How Lucky Am I: White Privilege
(Above: How Lucky Am I: White Privilege, an artist book. When hung on a wall: 14 3/4" x 9" x 4". Thirty-one pieces of 12" x 9" painted canvas with zigzag stitched edges and hand embroidered...
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Little Things Make a Big Difference
(Above: Oswald Home Laundry, a mini art quilt. 9 3/4" x 13 3/4". Digital image printed on cotton fabric with free motion stitching, hand beading, and button hole stitched binding. Click on any image...
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The Clothesline Continues Growing
(Above: New additions to my Clothesline Installation. Click on any image to enlarge.)There's something special about this installation. Perhaps it is because I started it while enjoying a wonderful...
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Misfits, a mini art quilt
(Above: Misfits, 12" x 12". Manipulated digital image printed on fabric with free-motion and hand embroidery. Click on either image to enlarge.)I honestly thought that by now COVID-19 would be...
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Biodiversity and a new kitten
(Biodiversity, 37 1/2" x 42 1/2". Recycled frame and vintage, crewel embroidered seat cushions with buttons and collaged letters. Hand stitched. Click on any image to enlarge.)Some ideas stew for...
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Dreaming During COVID-19
(Above: Dreaming During COVID-19, a mini art quilt. 12" x 12". Manipulated digital image printed on fabric with free motion and hand embroidery. Click on either image to enlarge.)As this pandemic...
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Mandala I
(Above: Mandala I, detail. Click on any image to enlarge.)I've been drawn to found object since ... well ... FOREVER or so it seems. Over the years I've collected rusted nails, old keys, buttons,...
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Solitary Confinement, a mini art quilt
(Above: Solitary Confinement, a mini art quilt. 14 3/4" x 11". Image from an individual cell at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia with hand and machine stitching and trapunto/stuffing....
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The Clothesline at Wildflowers Too in New Jersey
(Above: The Clothesline Installation at Wildflowers Too Gallery in Barnegat Light on the New Jersey shore. Click on any image to enlarge.)I am so very, very pleased that The Clothesline Installation...
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Improvisational Quilt Challenge
(Above: The scraps in the box I was sent for the GA/SC SAQA scrap challenge.)I've never really been one to go in for quilt challenges. Perhaps this is because I've never been a member of a...
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Western Flicker
(Above: Western Flicker, a mini art quilt. 12" x 12". Click on image to enlarge.) As COVID-19 continues to impact my life and work, I am drawn to images of dead birds. Their still bodies convey a...
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Mandala II
(Above: Mandala II. 46" x 46". Custom framed section of a vintage quilt onto which assorted found objects have been stitched. Click on any image to enlarge.)Even before finishing the first mandala,...
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Mandala III
(Above: Mandala III. 46" x 46". Vintage quilt covered in pale blue tulle and embellished with two clock faces, screw eyes, buttons, beer caps, safety pins, sewing machine bobbins, bullet shell...
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Three Birds Flew Into a Window (and I Mourned), a mini art quilt
(Above: Three Birds Flew into the Window [and I Mourned], 12" x 12" mini art quilt featuring three dead waxwings posed on a bed of ivy. Click on either image to enlarge.)It's been nearly a decade...
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Mandala IV
(Above: Mandala IV. 32 1/2" x 32 1/2" as a square; 46" x 46" as a diamond. Corner of a vintage quilt covered with pale blue tulle and embellished with parts of clocks and a piano, textile mill...
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Great Basin National Park ... an art residency!
Earlier today, I arrived at Great Basin National Park for my two-week art residency. I'm excited. Having been to this remote location once when snow cover prevented any hiking, I was anxious to...
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Great Basin Art residency begins
(Above: Stella Lake along the Alpine Lakes Loop Trail at Great Basin National Park in northern Utah.) Steve and I visited Great Basin over a year ago. We intended to hike the Alpine Lakes Loop...
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Learning new tricks in a remote setting
(Above: Fellow SAQA professional level member Vicki Conley and me visiting in the provided art residency housing at Great Basin National Park)The Internet is a wonderful thing when it works! Here at...
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